Let America Be America Again says Mr. Hughes

I really love Langston Hughes' poem Let America Be America Again written in 1938, for a number of reasons. The feeling of America not truly being " the land of the free" is one that is all too common even to this day by all of its citizens. In the poem Hughes states," it was never America to me," Hughes is expressing the way he feels that the idea of "America" where people could come to start a new life and live as free men, was untrue in his eyes and the eyes of minorities; and expresses how he wants to see America the way it was intended to be. These thought Hughes is expressing in his poem are ones felt by almost every man regardless of race even to this day, which is one of the reasons that makes this poem so great; people still relate to the poem after so many years. It seems that compared to the days when the poem was written, that we have come a long way in our progress toward equality among men, though we still have a long way to go.